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In a collection ranging from an expos of marijuana's ravages upon youth in 1930 to recent arguments about drug control policy, these essays cover many viewpoints and aspects of recreational drug use in America. Topics include theoretical perspectives on drug use and addiction; examinations of legal and illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, co

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• Preface(p. x)
• About the Editors(p. xi)
• About the Contributors(p. xii)
• Introduction(p. xv)
• Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Drug Use and Addiction(p. 1)
• 1 Why People Take Drugs(p. 4)
• 2 A Sociological Theory of Drug Addiction(p. 14)
• 3 Some Considerations on the Disease Concept of Addiction(p. 27)
• 4 The Use of Marijuana for Pleasure: A Replication of Howard S. Becker's Study of Marijuana Use(p. 41)
• 5 Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century(p. 50)
• 6 Sociopharmacology of Drug Use: Initial Thoughts(p. 62)
• Part II Alcohol and Tobacco(p. 71)
• 7 A Brief History of Alcohol(p. 74)
• 8 Gateway to Nowhere: How Alcohol Came to Be Scapegoated for Drug Abuse(p. 80)
• 9 College Binge Drinking in the 1990s: A Continuing Problem(p. 86)
• 10 Smoking: What Does Culture Have to Do With It?(p. 101)
• Part III Marijuana(p. 111)
• 11 Marijuana: Assassin of Youth(p. 115)
• 12 Medical Marihuana in a Time of Prohibition(p. 121)
• 13 'Fry': A Study of Adolescents' Use of Embalming Fluid With Marijuana and Tobacco(p. 131)
• 14 The Power of 420(p. 142)
• Part IV Narcotics, Injection Drug Use, and HIV/AIDS(p. 149)
• 15 'Dope Fiend' Mythology(p. 155)
• 16 OxyContin: Miracle Medicine or Problem Drug?(p. 163)
• 17 Taking Care of Business-The Heroin Addict's Life on the Street(p. 174)
• 18 Gen-X Junkie: Ethnographic Research With Young White Heroin Users in Washington, D.C.(p. 188)
• 19 Termination of an Established Needle Exchange: A Study of Claims and Their Impact(p. 202)
• Part V Cocaine and Other Stimulants(p. 221)
• 20 America's First Cocaine Epidemic(p. 225)
• 21 African Americans, Crack, and Crime(p. 230)
• 22 Cocaine-Exposed Infants and the Criminalization of Pregnancy(p. 241)
• 23 History and Epidemiology of Amphetamine Abuse in the United States(p. 252)
• 24 'The Ice Age': The Social Construction of a Drug Panic(p. 267)
• Part VI Hallucinogens and Other Psychoactive Drugs(p. 285)
• 25 Rise of Hallucinogen Use(p. 288)
• 26 Rohypnol, GHB, and Ketamine: New Trends in Date-Rape Drugs(p. 302)
• 27 Circuit Party Attendance, Club Drug Use, and Unsafe Sex in Gay Men(p. 319)
• 28 Ketamine Injection Among High-Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings From New York City(p. 325)
• 29 Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimisation to a Healthy Settings Approach(p. 333)
• Part VII Drugs and Crime(p. 343)
• 30 The Drugs-Crime Connection(p. 346)
• 31 Drug Use and Street Crime in Miami: An (Almost) Twenty-Year Retrospective(p. 361)
• 32 The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework(p. 384)
• 33 Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change?(p. 395)
• Part VIII Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment(p. 413)
• 34 Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education(p. 416)
• 35 Advances in Therapeutic Communities(p. 426)
• 36 Methadone Maintenance: A Theoretical Perspective(p. 441)
• 37 The Elephant That No One Sees: Natural Recovery Among Middle-Class Addicts(p. 447)
• Part IX Policy Considerations(p. 461)
• 38 Commonsense Drug Policy(p. 464)
• 39 Why Can't We Make Prohibition Work Better? Some Consequences of Ignoring the Unattractive(p. 474)
• 40 Legalizing Drugs: Would It Really Reduce Violent Crime?(p. 484)
• 41 Against the Legalization of Drugs(p. 496)